From the tribe of Issachar, there were 200 leaders...who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do (1 Chronicles 12:32)
The end of one year and the dawn of another is always a reflective time. Some years ago in reading another writer I respect, who wrote in another era from our own, I came across the obscure passage, from the book of Chronicles highlighted above. He highlighted it to reference the critical need of God's people, in each era in which they live, to understand the movements of God, the movements of the times, and to know for their day what "Israel" ought to do. The scripture seemed to be burned into my heart by the Holy Spirit from that day forward, making an impression deep within me that has lasted until this day. Some scriptures are like that I have found. Some words never leave you.
If there has ever been times in which we as His people should seek God for understanding as to the day in which we live it would be today. I sometimes wonder if many of us truly understand the extraordinary times in which we presently live? In answering a response to a thread I interacted with recently I wrote the following:
{Begin Quote} I do see the storm clouds growing as you express here. We would be naïve to think otherwise. Like most evil movements of man, they come in such small increments that people don't even realize when they are finally trapped. The headwinds grow daily, but things become so commonplace in such a short matter of time, that people don't even realize the succession of things building is really a tsunami. They just treat it more as a new ripple, then they turn to see the whole land flooded and everything they once knew gone and wonder how we got here. Well, how we got here has been going on for some time, but when the lusts of man are raging against one another to get what they want, truth becomes irrelevant, perhaps it only becomes relevant again when people realize it is too late.
All the more reason we as His people need to bring our own lives to the cross, to live out from what is truly Spirit and Truth. How important will it be to know the true meaning of "Being in the world, but not of it". But Jesus passing through the midst of them, went His way (Luke 4:30) That would be the word I would want to live by when it, like it did Him, tries to lay hold of us, sidetrack us, and throw us off a cliff. {End Quote}
I have found myself in earnest prayer for God's people over the last several days. It seems one thing the Spirit has led me as imperative to pray is to know His Spirit as the Spirit of Truth. I have been praying for this breakthrough in you dear reader. I have been praying He would shine the light of His glory deep within your Spirits, that the gates would be flung open and the King of Glory would come in! Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; And the King of Glory shall come in. Who is this King of Glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle (Psalm 24:7-10) .
Then ye shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free (John 8:32).
However when the Spirit of truth has come, He will guide you into all truth... He will tell you things to come. He will glorify Me, He will take what is Mind and make it known ( John 16:13-14).
We desperately need this breakthrough for God's people. We need this understanding for our day. We need to be Issachars. We need this light to shine in the darkness to dispel all the lies. We need the King of Glory to Come in mighty in battle , to take what is truly of the Lord and make it known. We need people to be set free, error to dissolve in His Holy light. The way forward made known. To See things as they really are. The way in which they really need to be seen. I am praying dear reader for the King of Glory to come in. That He will dispel all the lies, He will break the enemy's power. I am praying He will Speak truth to you in love. He will snap your chains and set you free. He will tell you things you did not know. And teach you to walk in a different way. A way you had not known. He is seeking a people after His own heart. One's who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. Who worship Him in Spirit and in truth. Who know Him as Lord. Who worship Him as Lord. Who are obedient to Him as Lord. Who follow Him as Lord.
Will you know Him as Lord? Will you be obedient to Him as Lord? Will you from this day forward follow Him as Lord? Step out dear believer. Seize this day forevermore. Throw off everything that hinders. Leave the old you behind. Take on all the new man. Bring the full sacrifice. Walk with Him in a different way. From this day forward and forevermore. He is waiting. The Spirit is ready.
We live in perilous times. The World and our nation are at a major inflection point. The Spirit of Truth desires to break in. Men are on the move and demons are on the move it is true. But it is also true that God is on the move. God is on the move in this day as much as men and demons are on the move. Be sure if you believe one is true, believe also the other is true. But yet Jesus walked through the midst of them. These things did not cling to Him. (Luke 4:30).
Be in the world but not of it dear believer. Know what to touch and what not to touch. Be emptied of all your thoughts of how to serve Him, and know what it means to truly serve Him. Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my servant will also be (John 12:26). The truth will set you free. Jesus is the only way through the midst of it. Be in the world but not of it. Let it not cling to you. Be detached from it. Be not ensnared in it. Walk freely though it. Only He knows the way through it. May the King of Glory come in. May you lay everything down. May you lay yourself on the altar. May He take the offering with fire. And may you walk that day forward new forevermore. It is the only way through. Let the King of Glory come in. Open ye its doors to its new beginnings. This is a new day, a new year, lay hold of it!! Surely the Truth will set you free!
The end of one year and the dawn of another is always a reflective time. Some years ago in reading another writer I respect, who wrote in another era from our own, I came across the obscure passage, from the book of Chronicles highlighted above. He highlighted it to reference the critical need of God's people, in each era in which they live, to understand the movements of God, the movements of the times, and to know for their day what "Israel" ought to do. The scripture seemed to be burned into my heart by the Holy Spirit from that day forward, making an impression deep within me that has lasted until this day. Some scriptures are like that I have found. Some words never leave you.
If there has ever been times in which we as His people should seek God for understanding as to the day in which we live it would be today. I sometimes wonder if many of us truly understand the extraordinary times in which we presently live? In answering a response to a thread I interacted with recently I wrote the following:
{Begin Quote} I do see the storm clouds growing as you express here. We would be naïve to think otherwise. Like most evil movements of man, they come in such small increments that people don't even realize when they are finally trapped. The headwinds grow daily, but things become so commonplace in such a short matter of time, that people don't even realize the succession of things building is really a tsunami. They just treat it more as a new ripple, then they turn to see the whole land flooded and everything they once knew gone and wonder how we got here. Well, how we got here has been going on for some time, but when the lusts of man are raging against one another to get what they want, truth becomes irrelevant, perhaps it only becomes relevant again when people realize it is too late.
All the more reason we as His people need to bring our own lives to the cross, to live out from what is truly Spirit and Truth. How important will it be to know the true meaning of "Being in the world, but not of it". But Jesus passing through the midst of them, went His way (Luke 4:30) That would be the word I would want to live by when it, like it did Him, tries to lay hold of us, sidetrack us, and throw us off a cliff. {End Quote}
I have found myself in earnest prayer for God's people over the last several days. It seems one thing the Spirit has led me as imperative to pray is to know His Spirit as the Spirit of Truth. I have been praying for this breakthrough in you dear reader. I have been praying He would shine the light of His glory deep within your Spirits, that the gates would be flung open and the King of Glory would come in! Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; And the King of Glory shall come in. Who is this King of Glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle (Psalm 24:7-10) .
Then ye shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free (John 8:32).
However when the Spirit of truth has come, He will guide you into all truth... He will tell you things to come. He will glorify Me, He will take what is Mind and make it known ( John 16:13-14).
We desperately need this breakthrough for God's people. We need this understanding for our day. We need to be Issachars. We need this light to shine in the darkness to dispel all the lies. We need the King of Glory to Come in mighty in battle , to take what is truly of the Lord and make it known. We need people to be set free, error to dissolve in His Holy light. The way forward made known. To See things as they really are. The way in which they really need to be seen. I am praying dear reader for the King of Glory to come in. That He will dispel all the lies, He will break the enemy's power. I am praying He will Speak truth to you in love. He will snap your chains and set you free. He will tell you things you did not know. And teach you to walk in a different way. A way you had not known. He is seeking a people after His own heart. One's who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. Who worship Him in Spirit and in truth. Who know Him as Lord. Who worship Him as Lord. Who are obedient to Him as Lord. Who follow Him as Lord.
Will you know Him as Lord? Will you be obedient to Him as Lord? Will you from this day forward follow Him as Lord? Step out dear believer. Seize this day forevermore. Throw off everything that hinders. Leave the old you behind. Take on all the new man. Bring the full sacrifice. Walk with Him in a different way. From this day forward and forevermore. He is waiting. The Spirit is ready.
We live in perilous times. The World and our nation are at a major inflection point. The Spirit of Truth desires to break in. Men are on the move and demons are on the move it is true. But it is also true that God is on the move. God is on the move in this day as much as men and demons are on the move. Be sure if you believe one is true, believe also the other is true. But yet Jesus walked through the midst of them. These things did not cling to Him. (Luke 4:30).
Be in the world but not of it dear believer. Know what to touch and what not to touch. Be emptied of all your thoughts of how to serve Him, and know what it means to truly serve Him. Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my servant will also be (John 12:26). The truth will set you free. Jesus is the only way through the midst of it. Be in the world but not of it. Let it not cling to you. Be detached from it. Be not ensnared in it. Walk freely though it. Only He knows the way through it. May the King of Glory come in. May you lay everything down. May you lay yourself on the altar. May He take the offering with fire. And may you walk that day forward new forevermore. It is the only way through. Let the King of Glory come in. Open ye its doors to its new beginnings. This is a new day, a new year, lay hold of it!! Surely the Truth will set you free!
